Articles

The Future of Social Care in Taiwan: Ageing, Workforce, Technology and the Next Generation of Long-Term Care

Taiwan has entered a new phase in the development of long-term care. With LTC 3.0 now underway in a super-aged society, the central challenge is shifting from expanding services towards...

What Can Other Countries Learn from Taiwan’s Long-Term Care Reforms?

Taiwan has transformed long-term care from a comparatively limited service system into a nationwide network spanning homes, communities, institutions, health care and family support. This article examines the most important...

Long-Term Care Resilience in Taiwan: Emergency Preparedness, Continuity and System Capacity

Taiwan’s long-term care system operates in an environment where earthquakes, typhoons, flooding, infectious disease and infrastructure disruption can rapidly affect people who depend on continuous support. This article examines how...

Social Isolation and Community Connection in Taiwan: Building the Social Infrastructure of Healthy Ageing

As Taiwan becomes a super-aged society, ageing well depends on more than access to medical treatment and formal long-term care. This article examines how community care stations, age-friendly environments, social...

Preventive Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Frailty, Rehabilitation and Maintaining Independence

Taiwan’s transition to a super-aged society is increasing the importance of preventing or delaying avoidable functional decline rather than waiting for people to require intensive long-term care. This article examines...

AI and Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Opportunities, Governance and the Human Dimensions of Care

Artificial intelligence is beginning to enter Taiwan’s long-term care landscape through smart-care technology, robotics, digital service navigation and increasingly sophisticated use of health and care data. This article examines where...

Smart Ageing in Taiwan: Using Data and Technology to Support Independence and Prevent Functional Decline

Taiwan’s smart-ageing agenda is increasingly connecting digital health infrastructure, functional assessment, community prevention and long-term care rather than waiting for substantial disability before support begins. This article examines how data,...

Technology and Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Digital Innovation, Assistive Technology and Connected Support

Technology is becoming a more deliberate part of Taiwan’s long-term care infrastructure as LTC 3.0 expands smart assistive technology across homes, day care and residential services. This article examines how...

Person-Centred Care in Taiwan: Choice, Autonomy and the Changing Relationship Between Services and Citizens

Taiwan’s transition to Long-Term Care 3.0 is expanding the range of support available across homes, communities and residential settings, but greater service capacity does not automatically create greater personal control....

Safeguarding Older and Disabled People in Taiwan: Prevention, Protection and System Accountability

Safeguarding in Taiwan sits across long-term care, older people’s welfare, disability rights, domestic violence prevention and local protection systems rather than within a single care-specific process. This article examines how...

Quality Assurance in Taiwan’s Long-Term Care System: Standards, Monitoring and Accountability

Taiwan’s expansion of long-term care has increased the importance of demonstrating not only that services are available, but that they are safe, appropriate and capable of improving people’s lives. This...

Indigenous Communities and Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Culture, Equity and Locally Responsive Support

Long-term care in Taiwan’s Indigenous communities is shaped by more than distance. Culture, language, family and tribal relationships, workforce availability, transport and the design of formal services all influence whether...

Rural and Remote Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Geography, Access and Service Sustainability

Taiwan’s expanding long-term care system must work across densely populated cities, mountain communities, remote townships and offshore islands where distance changes the economics and organisation of care. This article examines...

Integrated Health and Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Bridging Organisational and Professional Boundaries

Taiwan’s Long-Term Care 3.0 reforms place stronger integration between medical treatment and long-term care at the centre of the country’s response to a super-aged society. This article examines how National...

Hospital-to-Home Care in Taiwan: Improving Transitions, Rehabilitation and Continuity After Acute Illness

Leaving hospital is one of the most consequential transitions in Taiwan’s ageing and long-term care system. This article examines how discharge preparation, National Health Insurance post-acute care, rehabilitation, home and...

Mental Health and Older People in Taiwan: Connecting Long-Term Care, Community Support and Wellbeing

Taiwan’s transition into a super-aged society is making older people’s mental health increasingly important to long-term care, primary health care and community support. This article examines how depression, loneliness, serious...

Disability Support in Taiwan: Independent Living, Participation and the Development of Community-Based Support

Taiwan’s disability support system is increasingly shaped by the rights, participation and independent-living principles associated with the CRPD, alongside continuing investment in community care and family support. This article examines...

Dementia Care in Taiwan: Building More Integrated Community and Specialist Support

Taiwan is moving into a new phase of dementia policy as the number of people living with dementia rises and Long-Term Care 3.0 strengthens connections between prevention, diagnosis, community support,...

Residential Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Quality, Capacity and Changing Expectations

Residential long-term care remains an essential part of Taiwan’s care system even as national policy places greater emphasis on ageing in place. This article examines how residential services are regulated,...

Day Care and Community Care Centres in Taiwan: Strengthening Local Support for Older People

Taiwan’s expansion of day care, community care centres and neighbourhood long-term care stations has created an increasingly important layer between support at home and residential care. This article examines how...

Home-Based Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Access, Quality and the Development of Support at Home

Home-based long-term care is central to Taiwan’s ambition to help older and disabled people remain in familiar communities as care needs increase. This article examines how publicly supported home care...

Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan: Their Role in Long-Term Care and the Challenge of Integration

Migrant care workers have become an essential part of Taiwan’s response to ageing and disability, providing intensive support within thousands of private households. This article examines how migrant live-in care...

Taiwan’s Long-Term Care Workforce: Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Sustainability

Taiwan has expanded its long-term care workforce rapidly, but a super-aged population is increasing demand for care at the same time as the working-age population contracts. This article examines recruitment,...

Family Caregiving in Taiwan: Changing Families, Informal Care and the Search for Sustainable Support

Family care remains central to everyday long-term support in Taiwan, but demographic change, smaller households, women's employment and increasing care complexity are reshaping what families can sustainably provide. This article...

Ageing in Place in Taiwan: Connecting Housing, Long-Term Care and the Infrastructure of Independence

Ageing in place is becoming a defining test of Taiwan’s long-term care system as a super-aged population increases demand for support within ordinary homes and communities. This article examines how...

Community-Based Care in Taiwan: Building Long-Term Care Around Local Networks, Access and Everyday Life

Taiwan has made community-based care central to its response to population ageing, using local service networks to connect assessment, home support, day care, prevention, respite and family assistance. This article...

Financing Long-Term Care in Taiwan: Sustainability, Entitlements and the Future Funding Challenge

Taiwan has expanded long-term care through a tax-funded model that combines a dedicated Long-Term Care Development Fund, public subsidies, user contributions and substantial family support. This article examines how financing...

Long-Term Care 2.0 in Taiwan: Building a More Integrated System of Community Support

Taiwan’s Long-Term Care 2.0 reforms significantly expanded access to home, community and caregiver support while building a denser local service network. This article examines how the model changed eligibility, care...

Population Ageing in Taiwan: Demographic Change and the Growing Demand for Long-Term Care

Taiwan’s transition into a super-aged society is changing the scale and nature of long-term care demand. This article examines how longevity, very low fertility, a shrinking working-age population and changing...

Taiwan’s Long-Term Care System: Policy, Provision and the Evolution of Community Support

Taiwan has entered a super-aged era while its long-term care system moves from the expansion achieved under Long-Term Care 2.0 into the new Long-Term Care 3.0 phase. This article examines...